2 miles west of Chilo on US Hwy. 52
Clermont County, Ohio
In Memory of Diana daughter of Lemmel & Sarah Whitney
Who died July 23rd 1823 , age 16 years.
In front of the grave, between the marker and the highway, is a
concrete post, which
has affixed to the top of it, a copper plaque, which reads as
follows:
There rests here in the quiet beauty of the valley of the Ohio, the
dust of a young girl.
On July 23, 1823 a wagon train creaking toward the west, came to a
halt close by. When
the train moved forward, one of its party had been left along the
trail, a hostage against time.
Diana Whitney, sleeping where the morning sun painted with strange
scarlet and major gold
the surface of the river, was sixteen on that summers day long ago.
